Russians

Russians are a Slavic ethnic group that are one of the most numerous ethnic groups in Europe and a major ethnic group in Russia and eastern Ukraine. They have been distributed in most of the former Soviet Union states as either a majority or minority, and they are almost all Orthodox Christians. There are 111,016,896 Russians in Russia, 8,334,141 in Ukraine, 3,793,764 in Kazakhstan, 3,500,000 in Germany, 3,072,756 in the United States, 1,240,122 in Israel, 1,199,015 in Uzbekistan, 785,084 in Belarus, 555,520 in Canada, 520,136 in Latvia, 419,600 in Kyrgyzstan, 369,488 in Moldova, and several more in other countries. 41%-80% of Russians are Orthodox Christian, including some "spiritual but not religious" people; almost all of the rest are either atheist or Catholic, Protestant, or Old Believers, while Islam and shamanism are negligible in the population.